Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, continues. The first series is in French, and Episode 4 deals with the theme of “Space debris”. L’épisode 4 est désormais disponible ! Depuis les années 1950, des milliers de satellites ont été lancés dans notre ciel, et nombre d’entre eux y restent longtemps […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, continues. The first series is in French, and Episode 3 deals with the theme of “Supermassive black holes”. L’épisode 3 est désormais disponible ! Que sont exactement les trous noirs supermassifs et pourquoi sont-ils importants ? Mark et Alexandra discutent de ces objets extraordinaires […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, continues. The first series is in French, and Episode 2 deals with the theme of “Extraterrestrials and Exoplanets”. Notre nouveau podcast est désormais disponible ! Y a-t-il de la vie au-delà de notre planète et où la cherche-t-on ? Mark et Alexandra s’entretiennent avec […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, has begun. The first series is in French, and Episode 1 deals with the theme of “Listening to the Universe”. Notre nouveau podcast est désormais disponible ! Comment la radioastronomie transforme-t-elle notre compréhension du cosmos, depuis le « bruit des étoiles » capté par […]

Switzerland has become the eighth country to join the intergovernmental nations that will collaborate in building the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), to be built in Australia and South Africa. Led by the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa, the SKAO will be the largest radio operational telescope for carrying […]

The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the biggest radio telescope ever built. Thanks to this ambitious tool, some of the universe’s greatest mysteries will be resolved. EPFL became a member of the SKA Organisation (SKAO) beginning of April 2020 and will coordinate the contributions to this project on […]

Prof. Schaerer of the University of Geneva, Prof. Kneib and Dr. Küttel of EPFL discuss the future of the Square Kilometre Array